2014 Predictions

[Mephistopheles]

I predict a riot....

 

[Jen]

A couple more:

Mercedes will implode now Ross Brawn has gone.
Red Bull will struggle to win the WCC title now Mark Webber has gone.

 

[Titch]

• Grosjean will win a few races
• Bernie will go to jail
• McLaren will implode.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Stage one of my plan to get the mrs watching f1 is complete. I've convinced her to sign up for FF1!

She actually struggled on the forum sign up security question so I think I have a tough challenge to make her an f1 fan.

 

[Brogan]

• Brogan probably won't watch a race

 

[sushifiesta]

The season hasn't even started yet and half my predictions are almost certainly wrong already.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Here goes nothing...

Mclaren will get back to the front
Red Bull will fall back but miraculously benefit most from Abu Double
Mercedes world championship
Massa wins a race
RoGro wins a race, finally
RoGro and Maldonado come together, taking each other out eventually
A Red Bull will get KK'd
Pirelli's will explode
Tyre warmers won't be banned for 2015
A newer team will score a point due to engine calamities
Kobayashi will get bonuses by the overtake
Mercedes will attempt to get Brawn back
USA will be postponed again
BBC will fall again but still be more entertaining than Sky
The Skypad will break eventually, fall and crush Ant(s)
Bernard will say something stupidly controversial on the grid
Martin and DC will have a polite interview again
DC and Button will cuddle in the cockpit
Smedley will be back on Massa's radio!
More speculation about a stupid country hosting a GP
And finally, there will be a new team entering for 2015!

 

[fanta federation fia]

I don't have read precedent post.

Mercedes win constructor standing
For the second place battle McLaren, RedBull, Williams.
Ferrari 5th
Alonso left Ferrari at the end of season because not competitive car.
Battle Rosberg Hamilton for Driver Standing. Hamilton Win.

 

[Greenlantern101]

• The cost cap for 2015 will be abandoned

Another one in the bag
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/...g-plan/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[sushifiesta]

So how are we getting on so far now the season's started people? I've colour coded mine green for likely to happen/already happened, blue for might happen and red for probably won't happen!

• Ricciardo will win a race - possibly
• Maldonado will get Lotus' best finish of the year and improve his reputation but... NOT LOOKING LIKELY!
• Grosjean will generally be faster and more consistent (and beat Maldonado in the WDC).
• Magnussen will score less points than Button. - looks like Jenson just about has him covered.
• Every engine manufacturer will have an engine/ERS related retirement within the first three races. - Was the case despite reliability being much better than expected.
• The V6s will sound crap. - Getting used to it though.
• The new cars will be so slow that a major regulation change will be put in place for 2015 to speed them up. - Faster than expected again...
• After another change of ownership, the current Lotus (Enstone) team will try to change its name to Caterham. - They desperately need a change of ownership/some money at least...
• A championship contender will have a grid penalty at the final race due to running out of engines. - Could happen but Mercedes looking pretty solid so far.
• The championship will be fought between a driver with a fast but unreliable engine and a driver with a slow but reliable engine.
• McLaren will get podiums but not a race win.
• Williams will only be slightly less crap than 2013.
• Caterham or Marussia will get their first points in a topsy turvy wet race with lots of retirements in the first half of the season.
• In-season testing rules will be relaxed. We have these two day tests which were probably already in place when I wrote this but I didn't know so it counts!
• The Pirelli tyres will be too hard and we'll see less pit stops. Kind of.
• Raikkonen will be completely outclassed by Alonso. So far at least.
• Mercedes will win six or more races (twice as many as 2013). Probably many more!
• A large car manufacturer will show serious interest in entering a new team for 2015 but it will eventually amount to nothing. There were one or two VW/Porsche stories.
• The double points for the final race rule will be scrapped before Australia.
• A new race in an obscure and seemingly inappropriate country will be announced for 2016. Azerbaijan, ok that's 2015 but close enough!
• Broadcasters and sponsors will try to make a big deal out of the new driver numbers but no one will give a shit. Even broadcasters/sponsors haven't made a fuss about it.

Roughly equal amounts of red, green and blue!

 

[Greenlantern101]

• Silverstone will be monsoon wet
• So will Spa

I think this rain in Spa counts as monsoon like. Chalked up another one.

 

[Bill Boddy]

Two totally dry sessions followed by one where the rain had stopped and the track was nearly perfectly dry by the end of the session. A monsoon?

 

[Greenlantern101]

I did not too bad here.

• RedBull will be 3rd in the WCC --WRONG--
• Someone other than Seb will win the WDC --CORRECT--
• Massa will find his mojo --CORRECT--
• Pastor and Roman will have a crash --WRONG--
• Bernie won't go to jail --CORRECT--
• McLaren will finish behind Lotus --WRONG--
• Williams will get a podium--CORRECT--
• Kevin will score more points than Jenson--WRONG--
• Abu Double will be the decider.--CORRECT--
• Pirellis will explode--WRONG--
• We will have a sub 2 second pit stop--WRONG--
• The cost cap for 2015 will be abandoned--CORRECT--
• Webber will not do a back flip at LeMans--CORRECT--
• The Lotus Quantum deal will never happen--CORRECT--
• Silverstone will be monsoon wet--WRONG--
• So will Spa--WRONG--
• Ron Dennis will come back--CORRECT--
• Ross Brawn will come back--WRONG--
• I will watch at least 4 races from my bed--CORRECT--
• Bernie will announce his retirement date--WRONG--
• I won't watch the BBC coverage even once--CORRECT--
• RedBull will be caught cheating --CORRECT--and get away with it--WRONG--
• Caterham will pull out of F1--CORRECT--sort of.
• Kimi Vs Alonso battles will get nasty--WRONG--
• Spectacular turbo blow outs will happen many many times--WRONG--

 

[teabagyokel]

• 10 teams only by Abu Dhabi. CALLED IT
• Red Bull to lose the titles, Horner to yeah, no, erm... pretend they didn't. HALF RIGHT!
• EJ sacked. PITY
• Sirotkin to replace one of them by Asia. NO
• Hulkenburg to look great; passed over for top drives by knobheads with money. UNTIL HUNGARY, I SUPPOSE...
• Lotus TMC. SLACKING, PASTOR!
• Maldonado to win one but still lose the battle to RoGro. DID I MEAN A RACE? TECHNICALLY HALF RIGHT!
• Alonso to lose his cool, Raikkonen to not give shit. HALF RIGHT
• Massa to be shown up by Bottas. LOOKING AT THE CHAMPIONSHIP...
• JEV not to make 2015. NEARLY...
• Button to retire, replaced by Alonso. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
• Vandoorne placed in a seat for 2015. COULD STILL HAPPEN, 4 GP2 POLES IN A ROW, DON'T YOU KNOW?
• Hamilton seen shouting at random Pirelli employees. NO
• ...as they NEARLY cost him the title! WELL, HE LOCKED THEM UP. A LOT. AND WON IT.
• Perez to collide with KMag... MUST HAVE.
• ...and Maldonado! SURELY

 

[Jos the Boss]

Here goes nothing...

Mclaren will get back to the front Kinda
Red Bull will fall back but miraculously benefit most from Abu Double Wrong
Mercedes world championship YES
Massa wins a race So near
RoGro wins a race, finally So far...
RoGro and Maldonado come together, taking each other out eventually I don't think so?
A Red Bull will get KK'd Unless there was one in Brazil, wrong!
Pirellis will explode Wrong
Tyre warmers won't be banned for 2015 Who knows?!
A newer team will score a point due to engine calamities Let's say yes!
Kobayashi will get bonuses by the overtake So wrong
Mercedes will attempt to get Brawn back Nope
USA will be postponed again Yes!
BBC will fall again but still be more entertaining than Sky Well, yes!
The Skypad will break eventually, fall and crush Ant(s) It broke I suppose
Bernard will say something stupidly controversial on the grid Probably
Martin and DC will have a polite interview again Yes
DC and Button will cuddle in the cockpit Probably off camera
Smedley will be back on Massa's radio! Yes! "Not bad for an old man!"
More speculation about a stupid country hosting a GP Azerbaijan anyone?
And finally, there will be a new team entering for 2015! Marussia would be new...!

 

[F1Yorkshire]

• Only Red Bull, Mercedes & Ferrari win races Sort of called it right .
• Magnussen out scores Button for the 1st half of the season but mysteriously loses form in the second half.
• Maldonado doesn't complete the season
• Williams get at least one podium
• Kobayashi gets Caterham a point
• Chilton finishes every race in last place
• The McLaren won't be orange.
• Lotus changes it's name before the end of the season
• Rain in Bahrain or Abu Dhabi at somepoint over the weekend.
• Red Bulls second driver slips into obscurity, who got that drive anyway?
• An exploding tyre ruins Hamiltons race at some point in the season. Possibly yes, if you count a puncture.
• Kimi v Alonso turns out to be a damp squib.
• Button to retire at the end of the season - Jury still out on this one
• Whitmarsh to be sacked
• I get my OH to watch at least one race in the season. Got her to watch one, shame she didn't last the season

 

[Brogan]

Brogan probably won't watch a race

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

• Red Bulls second driver slips into obscurity, who got that drive anyway?

Seb sort-of did slip into obscurity!

 

[FB]

• McLaren will win two GP's late in the season but Button won't be the driver - Miles away

• Button will retire at the end of the season - does enforced retirement count?

• One of the Ferrari drivers won't make it to the end of the season - I'm surprised both did

• Vettel will win the WDC - Well, you can't blame a girl for hoping

• Mercedes will win the WCC - As they did

• Ross Brawn will buy into the Williams team and come back mid-season as team principal - Nope

• Sam Michael and Martin Whitmarsh will be criticised heavily by the members of CTA - Not sure if criticism and piss taking are the same thing

• McLaren will send the car out at least twice with a loose wheel after a pit stop - Dunno, they were so far back for most of the season they may well have done

• Daniel Riccardo will win two GP's following Vettel retirements - well, he won 3 as the result of Mercedes failures so I claim a half

• Grosjean will break his duck - Ha!

• Marussia will beat Caterham (again) in the WCC - and they did

• The BBC will end their contract with FOM and the end of the season - still time

• Massa will get a podium - and he did

• Bottas will take one pole in changing weather conditions - wrong Williams driver

• Rosberg and Hamilton will win the same number of races - Not even close

• Eddie Jordan will nut Simon Lazenby and we will all wish we had done the same - Who knows what goes on when the cameras stop rolling

• David Coulthard will finally come out of the closet - judging by some of the outfits he wore this is most certainly true

• There won't be as many engines blow ups as we are all expecting - and there weren't

• ERS, however, will be a constant problem for all teams - well it was, wasn't it?

• Jules Bianchi will score 1 point - the boy got double that (get well soon Jules)

• Double points for the final race will be dropped - nope, but it didn't make a difference anyway

• There will be seven different GP winners in 2014 - hope over expectation